John Kotter

Thinkers50 Management: A book review by Morris

May 23, 2017

Thinkers50 Management: Cutting-Edge Thinking to Engage and Motivate Your Employees for Success Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) Which concepts are the central focus of today’s cutting age thinking about management? This is one of the volumes in…

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Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

August 11, 2016

Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA Michael G. Fuchs, K. Scott Swan, and Abbie Griffin, Co-Editors John Wiley & Sons (2015) “We spend a lot time designing the bridge, but not enough time thinking about the people…

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Delivering on Digital: A book review by Bob Morris

June 13, 2016

Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government William D. Eggers RosettaBooks (June 2016) How to attract, hire, train, and then retain the talent for digital thinking that can transform any organization This book’s title refers to…

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That’s Not How We Do It Here!: A book review by Bob Morris

June 8, 2016

That’s Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall–and Can Rise Again John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber Portfolio Penguin/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2016) How to create and then sustain a best-of-both-worlds…

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Why Engagement Happens In Employees’ Hearts, Not Their Minds

April 28, 2016

Winning your employees over to stick with the company long term involves an array of factors—but first among those is love. Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Mark C, Crowley for Fast Company magazine. To read the…

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Creating Cultures of Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

March 16, 2016

Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools Ron Ritchhart Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2016) “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso As I began to read…

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Business Books for People Who Don’t Read “Great Books”

December 2, 2015

As you select holiday gifts for family member and friends, you may be in need of some suggestions of business books for non-readers. They can read, of course, but have little (if any) time or inclination for “great books” such…

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How to set the right priorities and obtain buy-in throughout the given enterprise

July 15, 2015

In Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland shares his thoughts about how to set the right priorities. As he explains, “The important thing, though, is just to begin. Just start…You don’t need…

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Thinkers50 Management: A book review by Morris

May 31, 2015

Thinkers50 Management: Cutting-Edge Thinking to Engage and Motivate Your Employees for Success Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) Which concepts are the central focus of today’s cutting age thinking about management? This is one of the volumes in…

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Karl Ronn: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 23, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells…

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